Amentep

There's still and appeal to challenge the verdict and even if they lose that, IIRC, Gawker can file for remittitur (?) asking for relief against an excessive verdict. Good points and I'm sure they will appeal....whats your view on the severity of this fine Amentep, I know we discussed this in the past and I ended up accepting that its fine for Gawker to be sued. You made a good argument back then but now that the court hearing is real do you still think its fair? As I understand it - and I'm not an expert - the fine actually exceeds Gawker's assets on the idea that Gawker's parent company and Denton have more personal worth that would cover the award/punitive fine. But frankly, given that Gawker were told to remove the tape and didn't in a previous court ruling, I have little sympathy for the company in this defense. And even beyond that, to publish the tape in the first place left me no sympathy for them (and I confess I I would have found it hard to be an unbiased member of the jury had I been called). I am full of sympathy for those not in Gawker's leadership who will lose their jobs if the verdict stands as they're losing their jobs for things they didn't do, but I think its important that companies understand that they cannot continue to exist and maintain such abhorrent business practices. At some point its not a case of "these people can be punished in a way that they can learn from their mistakes as they continue to do business" to "we need to make sure these mistakes cannot be perpetuated by a business that makes no sign that they understand the mistakes, wrong and hardships they continually force upon people", if that makes sense.

There's still and appeal to challenge the verdict and even if they lose that, IIRC, Gawker can file for remittitur (?) asking for relief against an excessive verdict.

"Manterrupting"? Is that actually a thing now?

My memory is rusty (because decades), but I think "no entiendo" is "I don't understand". "No sé" is "I don't know" maybe?

I did French in High School. Unfortunately I did Spanish in college, which meant for awhile I would transition from one to the other (Typically start in spanish, finish in French). I haven't used either for so long I can't remember a lot; wouldn't mind going back and refreshing either though.

Doesn't work in French.

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - a movie that pretty much rests on the lead cast selling the premise (which, IMO they do). The film is twisty enough to keep the general audience guessing, I think. A lot of debate about whether the film ties to Cloverfield or not, but its a waste of thought process IMO - the film's connection to other films (or lack of same) is irrelevant; it's a good, claustrophobic thriller where the audience only knows as much as the main character. Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) - Richard Anderson stars as a scientist whose fiancee is the reincarnated love of a gladiator who were both killed in the Pompeii eruption. The gladiator returns as a lava-encased body(?) from the Pompeii digs and starts a path of destruction trying to "save" his love from Pompeii's distruction. The film tries to imply supernatural and scientific rationale to what is going on, but its ultimately silly window dressing for a non-Egyptian based Mummy film. Fun enough, if you like that kind of film (I have a soft spot for Mummy-type films). Probably dull for those who do like classic "creature features". The look for the "Faceless Man" is effectively different.

Yeah that's fine that its optional, but its why I play all games as single player or with people I know only.

It is what you have to deal with in that setting...which is why I'd never play it. Sounds the opposite of fun to me.

The populace population is popular to populate.

Hmmm, reading this made me remember I never finished 999...

I've gotten rid of a LOT of my game boxes and moved the discs to folders (exception being cartridges which are still in storage). I ran out of room for more boxes, for the most part. :|

Activision owns Arcanum AFAIK (via purchasing Sierra), so any game Obs did would be "Spiritual Sequel" only. Which wouldn't be bad, necessary, since I think Arcanum - while fun - did a lot of things that could be improved upon.

Its Obsidian, so I'm interested...but need to know much more about it.

I call them illustrated books using multiple panels per page and text to craft a story as opposed to picture books which has one illustration a page to illustrate the story; also there is clever use of design and panel-to-panel transitions to create story movement within the visual context. Usually after calling them this, people look at me funny.

LLL!

There's reference in the Ant-Man teaser to "The Accords"; I'd taken that to be some sort of governmental oversight to superheroes ala SHRA. The first trailer shows a large government document called "The Sokovia Accords". In the first teaser the implication is that the Accords bind Stark's hands in terms of dealing with Bucky, this makes me think that he has to bring them in. Because General Ross is there, I suspect that he's tasked with making sure all the heroes act according to the Accords or face further sanction. It may not be called the SHRA, but it has a lot of the same elements of it.

I think Winter Soldier under programming to take out a target with an explosion is going to be the substitution for Nitro vs. The New Warriors (who really weren't an amateur team - only two new members were on the team when Civil War happened from team who'd been in the previous ~100 issues). This will lead to the Superhero Registration Act. I think that will result in Cap siding with trying to help Bucky free his programing while Shellhead will want to bring him to justice to show the Registration Act works.

I think killing Raedric in favor of Kolsc is a pretty good example of a "good" decision coming back to haunt you. I mean, arguably the best outcome for Gilded Vale is siding with Raedric to kill Kolsc. Doesn't sparing Wirtan also come back to bite you in the ass later? Only if you drive him out of town, and he'll be all "But I'll die out there", so it's not really the benevolent thing to do. Mmm, I'm misremembering - I thought he was always with Gramrfel's group if he wasn't killed.

Yeah, I wonder what happened. I'm not a MMO player, but I know a few who were who thought some of the ideas they were trying to do could be really good if they panned out.

I think killing Raedric in favor of Kolsc is a pretty good example of a "good" decision coming back to haunt you. I mean, arguably the best outcome for Gilded Vale is siding with Raedric to kill Kolsc. Doesn't sparing Wirtan also come back to bite you in the ass later?

Point is the end isn't directly important to whether there is a God/gods/goddesses or not. The Engwithans found no evidence of god - but absences of evidence isn't evidence of absence. For all the player knows, there actually ARE gods out there beyond what the Engwithan's created. The Engwithans decided that no proof of god meant there was no god and that unless there were gods there would be eternal fighting between the people of Eora. And so they made entities with powers beyond those of mortals, to manifest and prove the gods existed and who they were. To order even chaos by putting it in a box attached to relevant gods. The resolution of the game is only regarding the discovery that the current beings worshiped by many on Eora are Engwithan creations (and as an aside, there is the debate whether that is still sufficient to consider them gods). Nothing in the game establishes that there aren't gods other than the Engwithan one, and so it could be that there is some distant pantheon in the setting.

Pretty much. Stats drive combat, player drives narrative. I'd argue "An RPG is a game where stats drive conflict resolution and where the narrative provides, and is reactive to, player choice" personally. But then again what I think of as an RPG in video game wouldn't cut the muster in the P&P world.

They wed military men so they can sit at home collecting on a fat check of military benefits. Poor soldiers! Tricked into wedding leggy blondes! If only I'd known, I would have listened to the military recruiters more.

Interesting, I'd never have connected the actor for the ads with his earlier roles. Actor Mark Goddard has a similar story about moving to Hollywood and not wanting to lose a job overstated his horse-handling ability which IIRC led to him being unable to stop and riding out of shot until someone could stop the horse.